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An index covering the papers presented at the 19 Open Hearth Conferences from the first meeting at Pittsburgh, April 15 and 16, 1925, through the most recent meeting in Detroit, April 16 and 17, 1936, the reports of the meetings and the discussions that took place has been published, accompanied by a list of the papers presented, grouped by subject matter and a list of books of interest to open hearth men The list below gives the Open Hearth Conference meetings in chronological order and the symbols used to designate them in the index SYMBOL MEETINGS P25 Pittsburgh, April 15 and 16, 1925 C125 Cleveland, Oct 13 to 15, 1925 Ch26 Chicago, April 12 and 13, 1926 P26 Pittsburgh, October, 1926 B27 Buffalo, May 3 to 5, 1927 D27 Detroit, Nov 2 and 3, 1927 Y28 Youngstown, May 3 and 4, 1928 P28 Pittsburgh, Nov 15 and 16, 1928 C129 Cleveland, May 16 and 17, 1929 Ch29 Chicago, Nov 5 and 6, 1929 B30 Buffalo, May 20 and 21, 1930 C130 Cleveland, Nov 20 and 21, 1930 Ch31 Chicago, May 12 and 13, 1931- D31 Detroit, Nov 24 and 25, 1931 P32 Pittsburgh, May 24 and 25, 1932 Ch33 Chicago, June 29 and 30, 1933 P34 Pittsburgh, June 28 and 29, 1934 C135 Cincinnati, April 11 and 12, 1935 D36 Detroit, April 16 and 17, 1936 The list of papers mentioned in the first paragraph above is reprinted on pages 428 to 431 The Index of the Open Hearth Proceedings may be purchased at A I M E headquarters, 29 W 39th St, New York

Jan 1, 1936

[Separates of all the Technical Publications published in 1930 are available at Institute headquarters. All the papers are on file in public, university and technical libraries, and when so indicated in the list, may be found in the Transactions.] Metal Mining Technical Publi- Title Author Meeting Tran~. cation Volume No. and Page* 264-A.29 Quicksilver Industry in 1929. Im- L. H. Duschak San Francisco T30, 283, 319 provements in the Metallurgy of C. G. Maier and Oct., 1929 Quicksilver and Symposium on The others Present Status of the Quicksilver Industry (With Discussion) (37) 271-A.30 Observation on Ground Movement R. E. Palmer New York T30. 168 and Subsidences at Rio. Tinto Feb.. 1930 Mines, Spain (20) 274-A.31 Development and Installation of the C.L.Berrien New York T30, 139, 166 Hawkesworth Detachable Bit (29) Feb., 1930 276-A.32 Protective Measures . Against Gas 0. A. Glaeser New York T30, 129. 167 Hazards at United Verde Mine (11) Feb., 1930 287-A.33 Use and Cost of Compressed Air (12) R. S. Lewis New York Feb., 1930 314-A.34 Miami Copper Company Method of F. W. Maclcnnan New York T30, 39, YO Mining Low-grade Orebody (44) Feb., 1930 319-A.35 How Human Beings Respond to W. J. McConnell New York Changing Atmospheric Conditions Feb., 1930 (9) 324-A.36 Vertical and Incline Shaft Sinking at Arthur B. Foote San Francisco T30, 87 North Star Mine (21) Oct., 1929 32bA.37 Governmental Control of the Pro- W. E. Colby New York duction and Sale of Mineral Re- Feb.. 1930 sources (With Discussion) (16) 333-A.38 Some Recent Developments in Open- E. E. Hunner New York T30, 106, 117 pit Mining on the Mesabi Range Feb.. 1930 (25) 334-A.39 Mining Methods and Costs at Presi- V. D. Howbert El Paso dio Mine of American Metal Co. of R. Bosustow Oct., 1930 Texas (15) 339-A.40 Operation of Pressure Fans in Series W. 8. Weeks New York (8) V. 6. Grishkevich Feb., 1931 364-A.41 Top Slicing with Filling of Slices as H. Willey El Paso Used at the Charcas Unit of Com- Oct., 1930 pania Minera Asarco, S. A. (17) 373-A.42 Drill Sampling and Interpretation of H. T. Matson New York Sampling Results in the Copper G. A. Wallis Feb.. 1931 Fields of Northern Rhodesia (17)

Jan 1, 1930

By L. A. Cowan

IF the elements of personality be those characteristics in which humans differ, and if this definition be applied to the purchasing department for the Climax operations in Colorado, it must he concluded that this department has no distinguishing traits that would give it a departmental personality different from that possessed by the similar department of any progressive mining enterprise. Or, one may go further by stating that the rudimentary functions of any purchasing practice employed principally in the acquisition of maintenance, repair, and operating supplies are much alike, whether or not the industry involved be mining or milling. However, in the fact that the principal purchases of a mining company are materials for maintenance and repair and consumable operating supplies lies that essential characteristic which differentiates mining and milling purchasing functions from those of the manufacturer, the fabricator, or the ordinary processor.

Jan 1, 1946

Jan 1, 1969

By R. P. Fischer

The Colorado Plateau region has been the principal domestic source of uranium, vanadium, and radium. The value of these commodities produced from the region through 1964 slightly exceeds $2 billion. Most of the deposits occur in streamlaid lenses of sandstone in the Chinle and Morrison Formations. The ore minerals below the zone of oxidation are low-valent oxides and silicates of uranium and vanadium; all of these, except the quite stable vanadium silicates, oxidize readily to a variety of high-valent uranium and vanadium minerals. The ore minerals partly replace fossil wood but mainly impregnate sandstone, typically forming tabular ore bodies that are nearly concordant to the bedding of the host rock. The deposits range in size from those containing only a few tons of ore to those containing more than 1 million tons. Stratigraphic, lithologic, and sedimentary structural factors obviously influenced the localization of these deposits, but igneous activity, hydrothermal mineralization, and tectonic structures show no similarly consistent influence on localization. The deposits are epigenetic, but the source of the ore metals, the nature of the ore-bearing solutions, and the time of ore emplacement are uncertain. A few uranium deposits in the region are dominantly discordant to bedding and occur in collapsed breccia pipes or along linear fractures. Their origins are also uncertain.

Jan 1, 1968

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Jan 1, 1967

By Bedrand L. Johnson

THE phosphate-rock industry is built upon natural deposits of rocks and minerals in which the element phosphorus is present as a phoshate. The term ?phosphate rock? is a general one, applied to certain rocks of different degrees of consolidation and of diverese origin, charater and occurrence, composed of intimate mixtures of several phosphate minerals, largely submicrocrystalline, usually calcium phosphates, in commerical quantities, with various impurities. This term includes phosphatized limestones, sandstone, shales, and igneous rocks; nodular phosphates ; residual weathered phosphatic limestones ; vein phosphates ; and phosphatic sediments, both consolidated and unconsolidated.

Jan 1, 1944

By J. Ruben Velasco, Roland B. Mulchay

CANANEA has long been recognized as a remarkable field for geologic study. The copper deposits and rocks of the district have been described by many geologists and engineers, but only the most general correlations have been made between Cananea sedimentary rocks and other known sedimentary sections in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The present paper describes the Cananea sediments in greater detail than has been done before and attempts to fit the Cananea sedimentary section more closely into the geologic time table. The lack of well-preserved fossils has made it difficult to date the sediments accurately in geo- logic time, but it is possible to make tentative correlations between the Cananea sediments and the southeastern Arizona sections, based largely upon lithology and general position in the geologic column. It appears that sedimentation at Cananea and Bisbee may have been closely similar during Paleozoic time. Even such generalized correlations, however, may be subject to considerable modification in the future. The present study has led to the recognition of other problems of age and mineralization relationships in the Cananea district. Cananea is located in the north-central part of the state of Sonora, Mexico, at an elevation of 5270 ft. It is about 135 miles northeast of Hermosillo, the state capital, and 25 miles south of the international boundary. By road Cananea is 40 miles from the twin towns of Naco, Ariz., and Naco, Sonora, and about 50 miles from Bisbee, Ariz. It is served by the Nogales-Naco branch of the railroad, F.C. Pacifico, and is connected with Chihuahua and Mexico City by the Aeronaves airline.

Jan 6, 1954

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Jan 1, 1965

By Robert R. Walden, LeMont West

K ENTUCKY'S first acid-grade fluorspar flotation Kmill, shown in Fig. 1, was placed in operation Aug. 1, 1952, by the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. at Mexico, Ky. During 1951 a critical shortage of acid-grade fluorspar developed and it became necessary for the company to produce part of its fluorspar requirements. In 1951 the company purchased the Crider and Lennen metallurgical fluorspar mill and an adjacent stockpile of tailing at Mexico, Ky. The tailing, assaying about 26 pct calcium fluoride, originated from log washer and jig mill concentrators in the area. As the mill did not have a fluorspar dryer or convenient rail facilities, the company leased the Burleson concentrator at Marion, Ky., where these facilities were available. At Marion, Ky., on the Illinois Central Railroad, dry acid-grade fluorspar is transported direct to the company's Calvert City, Ky., hydrofluoric acid plant. The Mexico flotation plant was reconditioned and designed to produce acid-grade fluorspar from the jig tailing stockpile. The new plant flowsheet is shown in Fig. 2. The ore feed, old tailing, which contains 10 pct of waste rock and coarse gravel assaying approximately 8 pct CaF,, is bound together by sticky clay

Jan 1, 1955

By Cadwallader Evans

MY endeavor in this paper will be to tell something of the accomplishments and current problems of the anthracite producer and to suggest some of the avenues for technical development that seem to me to be the most necessary and likely to bear fruitful results. The several subjects, that I find of most interest will be taken up individually with brief reference to the future trend. Underground Mining and Loading ?In this field great progress has been made in the last twenty years, beginning with the introduction of the scraper system. The electrical hoists for the operation of scrapers have been improved, and give little trouble, but there is an open field for the improvement of the auxiliary apparatus, particularly in the application of roller-hearing sheaves to the guiding of scraper ropes. Also notable in the last six or seven years is the introduction of shaker chutes, so that far more anthracite is now loaded over them than by scrapers. This trend should continue to be manifest, particularly if those who are looking ahead and who are charged with the development of this specialty continue constantly to study and improve the mechanical design of their shakers.

Jan 1, 1938

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Jan 1, 1967

By Elmer W. Pehrson

OPINION seems widely divergent as to where we stand with respect to future mineral supply. From some quarters we hear that the United States is about to become a "have-not" nation and about to experience the evil consequences such a situation would entail. Others claim that we are still a treasure house of stored-up mineral wealth, the surface of which barely has been scratched. The data to be presented here support the conclusion that neither of these viewpoints is correct and that we are far from exhaustion of those mineral resources that are basic to our industrial economy. However, exhaustion is well advanced in a number of important subsidiary minerals so that we can no longer drift along with the easy-going philosophy that the earth will provide. The time has come when we must recognize the true situation and do something about it.

Jan 1, 1945

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